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• Visual C++ VS2005 Intellisense Problem

  Almost every time i want to use intellisense, i have to wait 30 seg, or close and open VS. I tried installing SP1, recreating my MFC project, but nothing so far... intellisense worked fine in VS2003, or should i call "intellidumb", kidding :P... It only happens in MFC/C++ projects, C# didn't happen so far. I took an image to picture how it works: http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/7683/intellidumbyy2.jpg Any suggestions Tks a lot In those seconds you wait for intellisense, do you see any process in the task manager consume CPU time If yes, which one Might some virus scanner interfere with the ncb-file Did you try to delete the ncb file while the IDE (devenv.exe) is not running. Restart the ...Show All

• .NET Development Wireless API and samples question WinXP with SP2

  I needs search all avable network and connect to selected in WinXP SP2. I've found Native Wifi do all that I needs, aslo it have patch for Windows XP SP2. Also I'we read that samples how it works are in SDK. I've downloaded this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=22b58b6c-8f98-40d0-880d-c3339c5da01e&DisplayLang=en but thereis no WiFi samples found. Where I can get them If it possible only WiFi without others. may be someone have another samples can search and connect networks under winXP SP2 If this problem can be sloven through registry tweaks -I'll be plasured much for that info (I've found only preconnected networks there). Summary questions intrresting in: 1. Any samples depends ...Show All

• Visual Basic Process.GetProcessesByName can't get process info

  Hi folks, Process.GetProcessesByName works fine when it was running as an administrator, but it gives an error when running as a plain user saying "Can't get process information from remote machine." The operating system is Windows 2003 server Std, and the machine is configured to be a terminal server. Anyone help with this I am pretty lost, thanks. ahmedilyas wrote: Process exists in .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1 FYI, which does the same job as .NET 2.0 generally I agree the process class does the same job in all three versions of the Framework. The point I was making was that the underlying implementation of the Process class is different in 2.0. All this is discussed here: h ...Show All

• .NET Development COM and .NET2 Interoperability

  Hi! I was started migrating project to Visual Studio 2005 and I discovered problem with iterating through collection from COM object. This was working fine in VS2003, but now I get this error: "Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to class type 'OurLibrary.OurClass'. COM components that enter the CLR and do not support IProvideClassInfo or that do not have any interop assembly  registered will be wrapped in the __ComObject type. Instances of this type cannot be cast to any other class;  however they can be cast to interfaces as long as the underlying COM component supports QueryInterface calls for the IID of the interface." Could anybody help me Problem resolved! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problem saving graphics to a file

  Hi, I have an application in which the PaintEvent calls up a procedure to get data from four Sql tables, and produce drawings. This part of the app works fine. I am now trying to copy these drawing one at a time to a Bitmap file, and not having much success. I've omitted the the Sql statement sections in the following code as they are not the problem. Private curFileName As String Private curImage As Image Dim ImageNo As Int32 = 0 ' This procedure adds the drawings ands text to the appropriate rectangle. Private Sub DrawDetails(ByVal e As Graphics) If ImageNo = 0 Then ImageNo = 1 Else ImageNo = ImageNo + 1 End If curFileName = "Drawing " & ImageNo & ".bmp& ...Show All

• .NET Development webservice videostreaming

  Hello. I want to use a webservice to get video from a remote server, how can I do it You should use Dime Attahcmen of WSE 3.0. here is the article explaining this. http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/071404-1.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What is it in VB

  I am struggling to figure out which dependency properties that can be used in .BeginAnimation in VB There seems to be a real difference between C# and VB in this respect. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1152919&SiteID=1 Not sure why VB is different and there does not seem to be any list of .BeginAnimation dependacy properties I can use. The documentation is extremely C# biased and of near no help. :-( Like why does C# use Image.LeftProperty (most logical I would say) and VB uses Canvas.LeftProperty. What does the canvas have to do with it and why does the documentation not mention anything about the C# Image.LeftProperty. According to the documentation Image does NOT have a LeftProperty property. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error while deploying to device

  Hi, I am getting the following error while I am trying to deploying my application. what may be the solution for this. "Unable to start Program '%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\TestApp\TestApp.exe'. Unable to load the CLR. the target device doesn't have a compatible version of the CLR installed for the application you are attempting to debug. Verify That your device supports the appropriate CLR version and has that CLR installed. some devices do not support automatic CLR upgrade." hope you can help me. Thanks in advance Then NETCF V2 installation failed for some reason (or it is disabled in VS - by you). You can try installing NETCF V2 CAB file manually ...Show All

• SQL Server Drives in a cluster environment

  Hi, I have a SAN and configuring a cluster on SQL 2005. I initially created a Quorum drive when setting up the cluster and now added 4 more drives to the physical node but when I try to install SQL that drive cannot be located. Do we need to create all the drives when installing the cluster or what is the way to add the drives later on. Thanks Anup Assuming you added the new drives as a disk resource in cluster manager, did you also make those new drives a Dependency of SQL Server If not, SQL Server will not be able to see them. ...Show All

• Gadgets Sidebar language and C/C++ is it possible?

  I have an idea for gadget, but I need to read files binary. So it looks I could make my gadget using C/C++ becouse HTML doesn's have such possibility but I am not sure is it possible to implement C/C++ in my gadget development. I would realy thankful if someone would explane how to develop gadget using C/C++ Have a look at this post, and follow the links to Bruce's How To documentation ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) A bug under full screen

  When the window is under full screen, and use the javascript to window.open("http://www.xxxxxx.com"), the parent window return to the normal size, and the source object's canvas gone to the Opacity=0 Sorry for the delay, I will file this bug internally. Thanks for reporting this issue. Ed Maia WPF/E PM ...Show All

• SQL Server Force Protocol Encryption In SQL2005 Client Configuration Doesn't...

  I am accessing a SQL2005 Express SP1 Server via TCP/IP (all machines fully up to date with windows update). For ease of configuration the Server IP is mapped to an Alias in Native Client Configuration Manager. On the Client Force Protocol Encryption is set to Yes and Trust Server Certificate is set to No . The clients are accessing the DB via SQL 2005 Management studio express and Ms Access 2003 (an access adp front end to the sql database). As a test i turned off force encryption on the server. A Network trace shows no encryption! Turning on force encryption on the server corrects this. As a further test I configured the server with a certificate the client doesn't trust. No error is generated by the un-trusted certificate! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Eh... You're not going to believe this...

  Okay, I saw on the front page of WindowsForms.Net: ".NET Framework 3.0 released!" At first glance I was very excited because this meant a preview at what development for Windows Vista and the new controls are. Well, hell, I go to create a new WPF Windows Application, (Vista ) from the Visual 2005 .NET 3.0 extensions and all it shows me is an XML/HTML looking code. So I run it without debugging and it pops up with a blank form. Okay now I am thinking, WHAT THE HELL. There is no designer view......................... Its like coding HTML...................YUK!!! Well, what can I say I am VERY disappointed in Microsoft for making this move, it is terrible. It is terrible for programmers and it is just plain stupid. If anyone else has the tim ...Show All

• Commerce Server Guidelines for Marketing Reports

  Hello, I'm using CS2007 to serve banners on a website. I'm looking for some guidelines to provide my client advertising statistics, mostly concerning Ad Requests. I already setup a SQL Server 2005 Report Server, but i can't get any info on how to configure it to get the CS2007 banner information. Any help will be greatly apreciated. Thanks. Hello Alan, My log files are located on two different servers. I'm now processing the files locally on the Report Server and trying to automate the task. For now i have one more question: the DTS import tasks include the Datawarehouse processing on the Analysis Server, or this has to be done after the DTS execution Thanks, -- Jorge ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Why do commas, periods count as separate words?

  I'm using the Direct3D Font object to draw a paragraph of text to the screen, and I'm finding that for some reason the lines don't break on punctuation like they should... // _msg = the string to draw, _size is a vector2, x/y are integers _font.DrawText(null, _msg, new Rectangle(_x, _y, (int)_size.X, (int)_size.Y), D3D.DrawTextFormat.Left | D3D.DrawTextFormat.WordBreak, _shadowColor); It beats me why this is happening, but i get the following kind of line break: Joey went to the store , and then he realized that this line starts with a comma. Standard line breaking suggests that either the comma should appear right after the word "store", or else the entire word "store" should appear on the next line, with ...Show All